Evaluation of Centrifugal Pumps in a Silage Feed Processing Plant for Pigs

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Published: Feb 17, 2019
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sedimentation, silage, centrifugal pumps, recirculation

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Arelys Vázquez-Peña
Instituto de Ciencia Animal
Verena Torres-Cardenas
Instituto de Ciencia Animal
Fermín Raúl Cobo-Cuña
Instituto de Ciencia Animal
Antihus Hernández Gómez
Universidad Agraria de La Habana
Alejandro Ruiz-González
Instituto de Ciencia Animal
Caridad Walkiria Guerra-Bustillo
Universidad Agraria de La Habana

Abstract

The work was carried out with the objective of determining how often the centrifugal pumps for industrial silage production have to work in the "Héctor Molina" plant of the Municipality of San Nicolás de Bari in Mayabeque, Cuba. That technology was developed by the Institute of Animal Science (ICA) and it uses by-products and wastes from the sugar industry and agricultural production for animal feed. To determine the frequency, the sedimentation rate (v) of the solids in the liquid raw materials (thermolised Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cream, concentrated vinasse) and the silage feed was calculated. For that, three experiments were carried out, each one with 10 graduated test tubes. Initial height of each test tube and height of descendant interfaces at different time intervals were measured and the behavior of the variable sedimentation vs. time was analyzed with statistical criteria. It was obtained that the (v) of the vinasse, cream and silage are 1,58 E-6 m / s, 2,76 E-07 m / s, and 1,55 E-07m / s, respectively. It is concluded that the centrifugal pump must recirculate the vinasse and the cream to maintain a stable chemical composition every 4 h and 12 h. The silage should be recirculated every 58 h to facilitate the extraction of the final product from the silos and the model that best describes the sedimentation of CSF is the quadratic model.

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Vázquez-Peña, A., Torres-Cardenas, V., Cobo-Cuña, F. R., Hernández Gómez, A., Ruiz-González, A., & Guerra-Bustillo, C. W. (2019). Evaluation of Centrifugal Pumps in a Silage Feed Processing Plant for Pigs. Revista Ciencias Técnicas Agropecuarias, 28(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.unah.edu.cu/index.php/rcta/article/view/1086
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Vol. 28 No. 1 (2019): January-February-March
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